WiFi Manager 2.6.8
Most of my time these days is taken by Aqua Mail.
Still:
Fixed compatibility of the one-tap switcher widget with Android 4.1-4.2.
Android bug report filed here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43336
Updated Portuguese translation.
Added Portuguese-Brazilian translation.
WiFi Manager 2.6.7
Added “sticky broadcast” permission which is not needed, but there are firmwares who think it is, and crash the app.
Does any of this ever get any testing?
When’s the final Android release coming out? I’m impressed with the 16 beta versions so far, but would like to see at least a release candidate.
Debian, XFCE, Google Chrome, ugly fonts (all of a sudden)
I noticed today that KDE4 in Debian Testing is now at (almost) the recent version and decided to give it a try.
After doing this (and purging KDE4 from my system… again…) I returned back to my usual XFCE environment and all of a sudden fonts in Google Chrome looked ugly, different than before.
The fonts in Chrome’s window decorations (page title, bookmarks bar) were fine, it’s just the fonts in web page content that appeared without hinting. Other apps were fine too.
Checked XFCE’s font settings (I prefer to use anti-aliasing and slight hinting), switched antialiasing and hinting off and on, checked /etc/fonts, nothing helped.
Did some searching on the web, and here is the fix.
~/.fonts.conf needs to have a section at the end (marked below) that apparently doesn’t get added by XFCE’s font config applet, but is necessary for Chrome.
<?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintmedium</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <!-- ***** ***** The following section was missing. ***** Adding it fixed web page fonts in Chrome. ***** --> <match target="font"> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>
WiFi Manager 2.6.6, Bluetooth widget 1.9.1
- Fixes for Android 4.1.
I use internal, undocumented APIs that are not exposed via the SDK, but are used by the built-in Settings app.
The new internal APIs appeared in Android 3.0, over a year and a half ago.
Certain functions are only possible by using these internal APIs, and in addition, Android 3.2.1 (at least) contained a bug that would cause the device to lock up if a dozen or more networks were configured on the device. The issue did not occur when using the internal APIs. It’s easy to see how it might have been missed in testing — “eating your own dog food” is not just a catchy phrase, it’s a good idea, which the developers of Android don’t always follow.
The internal APIs have been fairly stable from 3.0 on to and including 4.0. It was a disappointment to me that even with the 4.0 release those APIs did not “step into the light” (did not become documented). Now in 4.1, it actually got worse – these APIs are significantly different from those in 3.0 – 4.0 (even though the basic principle on which they are built is the same — asynchronous message passing rather than synchronous binder IPC calls).
There is a comment in WifiManager.java hinting that these new APIs might be finally opened up in the next Android version (5.0? 4.2?). I’ll be glad when they are, and hope that they won’t change too much from their current state (assuming the cleanup happened just now, in 4.1).
- New, improved Czech translation.
- New Portugese translation.
WiFi Manager 2.6.4
Another small update.
- Fixed crash when adding a network fails.
- Updated Chinese translation for Taiwan.
WiFi Manager 2.6.2
Just a couple of small new functions this time.
+ A setting for widget toggle switch action: immediate / confirm / ignore.
+ Tap network signal level in the main app to switch modes (image / percent / dBm).
Oh, and a few bug fixes, too.
A user.css for the redesigned Android Developers site
Makes the API reference and articles readable… again.
I’m using Google Chrome on Linux with the Stylebot Extension.
body {
font: 12px/16px Verdana;
background: white;
}
html {
background: white;
}
h1, h2 {
line-height: 1;
}
#jd-header h1 {
font-size: 14px;
}
#jd-content h2 {
font-size: 12px;
}
#jd-content h3 {
font-size: 12px;
}
#jd-content .prettyprint {
margin: 0.5em 0;
padding: 0.5em;
font-family: 'Droid Mono', 'Courier New', Courier;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 1.25;
}
.jd-details-title {
font-size: 12px;
}
#packages-nav h2, #classes-nav h2 {
font-size: 12px;
}
